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Right-wing media figures have revived the claim that there are “paid protesters and agitators” in Minneapolis coordinated by some outside force.
Right-wing media figures are claiming, once again, that anti-ICE protesters are paid agitators organized by liberal groups
Amid the ongoing protests against President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown in Minnesota, right-wing media figures have revived their oft-repeated claim that there are "paid protesters and agi...
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January 30, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Right-wing media figures have revived the claim that there are “paid protesters and agitators” in Minneapolis coordinated by some outside force.
Echoing Trump's own baseless claim, right-wing media figures are suggesting it is “perfectly reasonable” to question whether Rep. Ilhan Omar's assault was “fake” or “staged.”
Right-wing media attempt to justify baseless conspiracy theories that the attack on Ilhan Omar was staged
Right-wing media reacted to an attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) by a man who sprayed a liquid at her during a January 27 town hall event by suggesting the attack was “suspicious” and “staged.”Presiden...
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January 29, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Echoing Trump's own baseless claim, right-wing media figures are suggesting it is “perfectly reasonable” to question whether Rep. Ilhan Omar's assault was “fake” or “staged.”
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Tim Pool, still visibly red faced with rage after fans called him a bootlicker, is now calling for "the private ownership of nuclear and biological weapons" to compensate.
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Tim Pool: "I'm a 2A absolutist. I'm more 2A than all y'all combined. I have argued for the private ownership of nuclear and biological weapons."
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January 29, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Tim Pool, still visibly red faced with rage after fans called him a bootlicker, is now calling for "the private ownership of nuclear and biological weapons" to compensate.
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Libs of TikTok has spent the days following Alex Pretti's murder doxxing teachers, nurses, and school board members — trying to get ordinary people fired for supporting Pretti or opposing ICE www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/...
Libs of TikTok is doxxing teachers and nurses who support Alex Pretti or oppose ICE, trying to get them fired
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January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Libs of TikTok has spent the days following Alex Pretti's murder doxxing teachers, nurses, and school board members — trying to get ordinary people fired for supporting Pretti or opposing ICE www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/...
Chaya Raichik, who runs the social media account Libs of TikTok, has spent the days following Alex Pretti’s killing doxxing ordinary working people — teachers, nurses, school board members — for speaking out against federal immigration officials or expressing sympathy for Pretti.
Libs of TikTok is doxxing teachers and nurses who support Alex Pretti or oppose ICE, trying to get them fired
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January 29, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Chaya Raichik, who runs the social media account Libs of TikTok, has spent the days following Alex Pretti’s killing doxxing ordinary working people — teachers, nurses, school board members — for speaking out against federal immigration officials or expressing sympathy for Pretti.
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Not the main point here, but I'm struck by Benny Johnson still insisting that his house was set "on fire in a gang war" and he had to move because it "obviously had been set ablaze."
His neighbor's house was set on fire, which was put out in 20 minutes.
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His neighbor's house was set on fire, which was put out in 20 minutes.
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Benny Johnson says there was "dark spiritual energy" during 2020 election: "My wife swears that she saw a demon"
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January 29, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Not the main point here, but I'm struck by Benny Johnson still insisting that his house was set "on fire in a gang war" and he had to move because it "obviously had been set ablaze."
His neighbor's house was set on fire, which was put out in 20 minutes.
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His neighbor's house was set on fire, which was put out in 20 minutes.
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“Violent” “extremist” “paid protestors”: MAGA media’s revisionist narrative of Minnesota ICE protests ⬇️
January 29, 2026 at 3:38 PM
“Violent” “extremist” “paid protestors”: MAGA media’s revisionist narrative of Minnesota ICE protests ⬇️
Right-wing media have called women protestors “neurotic," “brainwashed,” and even “human shields for the party machine.”
Conservative media reacts to ICE shooting by launching attacks at the women protesting
In response to Renee Good’s death and the subsequent large scale anti-ICE protests, right-wing media have lashed out at and ridiculed one group of protesters in particular: women. Commentators across ...
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January 29, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Right-wing media have called women protestors “neurotic," “brainwashed,” and even “human shields for the party machine.”
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MAGA media and far-right figures smeared Pretti, calling him a “race traitor” who aimed to “commit a mass murder”
The right-wing media figures who have justified Alex Pretti's killing by Trump’s DHS
Following the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, many right-wing media figures jumped to blame Pretti for his own death and spread false information about his ac...
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January 28, 2026 at 11:37 PM
MAGA media and far-right figures smeared Pretti, calling him a “race traitor” who aimed to “commit a mass murder”
MAGA media and far-right figures smeared Pretti, calling him a “race traitor” who aimed to “commit a mass murder”
The right-wing media figures who have justified Alex Pretti's killing by Trump’s DHS
Following the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, many right-wing media figures jumped to blame Pretti for his own death and spread false information about his ac...
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January 28, 2026 at 11:37 PM
MAGA media and far-right figures smeared Pretti, calling him a “race traitor” who aimed to “commit a mass murder”
Bannon: "In the fog of war ... We have to hold the line. There can be no de-escalation at all. You don't need to bring down the temperature. Raise the temperature."
Steve Bannon calls for Trump to "raise the temperature" in Minneapolis: "You're gonna have to round up some 5-year-olds with their parents"
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January 28, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Bannon: "In the fog of war ... We have to hold the line. There can be no de-escalation at all. You don't need to bring down the temperature. Raise the temperature."
Following the widespread backlash against the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, Trump has demoted Greg Bovino and removed him from Minneapolis. MAGA figures are not happy.
“Looks like a surrender”: Right-wing media figures are disappointed by Trump’s demotion of Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino
Some right-wing media figures are frustrated over Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino’s demotion and removal from Minneapolis following widespread backlash against the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by...
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January 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Following the widespread backlash against the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, Trump has demoted Greg Bovino and removed him from Minneapolis. MAGA figures are not happy.
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Nick Fuentes calls Alex Pretti a “race traitor” and says there is “one less asshole in the world"
Nick Fuentes calls Alex Pretti a “race traitor” and says there is “one less asshole in the world"
Nick Fuentes calls Alex Pretti a “race traitor” and says there is “one less asshole in the world"
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January 27, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Nick Fuentes calls Alex Pretti a “race traitor” and says there is “one less asshole in the world"
Nick Fuentes calls Alex Pretti a “race traitor” and says there is “one less asshole in the world"
Ingraham: “I have no nice words by the way for Republicans using this as an opportunity to trash DHS”
Laura Ingraham launches vitriolic attacks at “cowardly RINOs” calling for Kristi Noem to be fired
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January 28, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Ingraham: “I have no nice words by the way for Republicans using this as an opportunity to trash DHS”
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As Trump's ICE continues to target US citizens, migrants with legal or protected status, and non-criminal undocumented people, right-wing media have stubbornly claimed he's still going after "the worst of the worst"
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Right-wing media have relentlessly pushed the false claim that ICE is going after the “worst of the worst”
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement has expanded operations in major cities, right-wing media have falsely claimed their enforcement actions are focused on apprehending “the worst of the worst” cri...
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January 28, 2026 at 12:52 AM
As Trump's ICE continues to target US citizens, migrants with legal or protected status, and non-criminal undocumented people, right-wing media have stubbornly claimed he's still going after "the worst of the worst"
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I wrote about how Fox News is trying to portray Tom Homan as the immigration good cop, the professional, the cooler head -- all of which is absurd to anyone who knows the first thing about him. Fox is trying for a rebrand but the underlying policy hasn't changed.
Fox’s absurd attempt to cast Tom Homan as Trump’s good cop on immigration
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January 27, 2026 at 9:59 PM
I wrote about how Fox News is trying to portray Tom Homan as the immigration good cop, the professional, the cooler head -- all of which is absurd to anyone who knows the first thing about him. Fox is trying for a rebrand but the underlying policy hasn't changed.
Homan is an immigration hardliner who was an architect of the family separation policy from Trump’s first term.
Fox’s absurd attempt to cast Tom Homan as Trump’s good cop on immigration
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January 27, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Homan is an immigration hardliner who was an architect of the family separation policy from Trump’s first term.
Fox News’ biggest stars are desperately trying to turn the Trump administration’s execution and subsequent smearing of Alex Pretti into a story about how the political left is out of control.
Fox stars respond to Alex Pretti’s killing by attacking Minneapolis “insurgency” of “hardcore communists” and “jihadists”
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January 27, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Fox News’ biggest stars are desperately trying to turn the Trump administration’s execution and subsequent smearing of Alex Pretti into a story about how the political left is out of control.
Fox host Brian Kilmeade on Minnesota ICE operations: “I sense that Bovino and company were just scooping up people that I don't think the president was for”
January 27, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Fox host Brian Kilmeade on Minnesota ICE operations: “I sense that Bovino and company were just scooping up people that I don't think the president was for”
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Tim Pool: "Trump is a weak old man"
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January 27, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Tim Pool: "Trump is a weak old man"
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Homan was the architect of family separation, the biggest immigration enforcement debacle of Trump’s first term. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
January 27, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Homan was the architect of family separation, the biggest immigration enforcement debacle of Trump’s first term. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
Some right-leaning streamers and political podcasters are speaking out against the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents.
Some right-leaning streamers and political podcast figures are breaking ranks to criticize Border Patrol’s killing of Alex Pretti
Some right-leaning streamers and political podcasters criticized the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, breaking ranks with the Trump administration and ...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Some right-leaning streamers and political podcasters are speaking out against the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents.
The most revealing aspect of the right’s current meltdown over anti-ICE protests is their confusion. MAGA world is flailing and sputtering, trapped inside a media ecosystem that no longer reaches reality.
Right-wing media silos leave MAGA flailing on ICE
MAGA’s whack-a-mole defense of immigration raids is backfiring
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January 26, 2026 at 9:43 PM
The most revealing aspect of the right’s current meltdown over anti-ICE protests is their confusion. MAGA world is flailing and sputtering, trapped inside a media ecosystem that no longer reaches reality.
Megyn Kelly: “Do you know why I wasn't shot by Border Patrol this weekend? Because I kept my ass inside and out of their operations.”
Megyn Kelly: Minnesota protesters are “terrorists” who must “behave well and submit immediately”
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January 26, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Megyn Kelly: “Do you know why I wasn't shot by Border Patrol this weekend? Because I kept my ass inside and out of their operations.”
Fox has spent months trying to convince their audience that progressive Americans are violent and want them dead. Now that the state is killing them, the network is explaining why they deserved to die.
January 26, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Fox has spent months trying to convince their audience that progressive Americans are violent and want them dead. Now that the state is killing them, the network is explaining why they deserved to die.